The Light Outside Depression

Happiness is like a fluttering bird,
In the silence it likes to be heard
For a smile to beam from ear to ear
To wipe away all those fragile tears
For laughs to echo through the halls
Memories kept within these walls
Secrets disappear once you evolve
All of your problems will soon be solved
Hope speaks out, wishing to be heard
All bad memories soon become blurred
Your soul dances with delight
Suddenly your future seems so bright
Slowly beginning to set out and soar
Feeling so beautiful right to the core
It may not happen overnight
But before you know it, you'll be all right

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Kadeelyn Konstantino is a twenty-year-old survivor of mental illness. She lives in a small town in Connecticut. Her inspiration for this poem was going through her own personal struggles and then rising above. Her mission is to give hope to others and encourage them to fight their battles because she knows if they try and give it their all, that they too can overcome anything.

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The number one question our editors receive is—what do the editors and judges look for when judging the contest? The number one answer we give is creativity. Unlike prose, writing composed in everyday language, poetry is considered a creative art and requires a different type of effort and a certain level of depth. Of the thousands of poems entered in each contest, the ones that catch our judges’ eyes are the ones that remove us, even just slightly, from the scope of everyday life by using language that is interesting, specific, vivid, obscure, compelling, figurative, and so on. Oftentimes, poems are pulled aside for a second look based simply on certain words that intrigued the reader. So first and foremost, be sure your poetry is written using creative language. Take general ideas and make them personal. In his infamous book De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong, W. D. Snodgrass imparts, “We cannot honestly discuss or represent our lives, any more than our poems, without using ideational language.”